I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Sivu 7371877Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1860 - 456 sivua
...heart. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....reascend. Nor did I by waking feel that I had reascended. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 454 sivua
...II. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it Deemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1862 - 624 sivua
...fretted my heart." All this was accompanied by a deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, that seemed to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it appeared hopeless to reascend. Time and space expanded into infinity. He felt as if he had lived a... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 304 sivua
...accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. 1 seemed every night to descend — not metaphorically,...sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it V seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did 1, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This... | |
| Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 sivua
...the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms for the eye ; and by a process, apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint...ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I h$d re-ascended. Why should I dwell upon this ? For indeed, the state of gloom which attended these... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1866 - 304 sivua
...accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. 1 seemed every night to descend — not metaphorically,...seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did 1, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 sivua
...-2. For thjs, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 140 sivua
...2. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I /z0</reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous... | |
| Horace B. Day - 1868 - 344 sivua
...II. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon, because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles—amounting... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 sivua
...incommunicable by words. I seemed every night to descend—not metaphorically, but literally to descend—into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from...re-ascend. Nor did I by waking feel that I had reascended. . . . " The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings,... | |
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